Peter Brunette

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For 104 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Brunette's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Lowest review score: 10 There's Something About Mary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 104
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 104
  3. Negative: 8 out of 104
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Thin Red Line
    I was so taken by the film's sublime visual poetry, its telling silences, its finely orchestrated editing rhythms.
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Brunette
    A Time for Drunken Horses
    It simultaneously wows you with the stark beauty of its images, a beauty that leads to another, related kind of truth that is equally crucial. It's not to be missed.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Brunette
    Proof of Life
    Flat and thoroughly predictable piece of filmmaking.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Brunette
    Pollock
    Irrespective of whether Pollock, as a movie, is any good -- and it is very, very good -- it's clear that Ed Harris was born to play the lead role.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Rosetta
    This kind of film, in its various manifestations recurring through the decades, gives us confidence that cinema can ultimately get to the heart of things.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Brunette
    Suzhou River
    A delight to the eye, ear, and mind
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    It's epic in every sense of the word, and like most of Chen's historical dramas, not easy to follow.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Cider House Rules
    Always consistently watchable, but you get the feeling that in the novel --- the treacle is cut with the nasty edge that Irving's writing is capable of.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Brunette
    Elizabeth
    What's best about the film is not the hot romance, but the coldness that lies at its heart.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Brunette
    Titanic
    The human interest story that occupies fully two-thirds of this three hour plus epic is so flat and unconvincing that, for once, you find yourself longing for the disaster footage to start.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Harry Is Here to Help
    An insistent, insinuating film -- both in terms of its plot and characters, and in its impact on the viewer -- Harry's effects are small-scale but so perfectly pitched that they never seem small.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Brunette
    Liberty Heights
    Far from perfect, and at 122 minutes it's way too long, but after surviving an overly schematic and even hectoring first half, finally delivers the emotional goods.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Brunette
    East Is East
    We've seen the clash of cultures and generations before,--- but never quite so humorously. This time, the focus is on the Pakistanis living in England, and it's quite amazingly done, perky and inventive to the core.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Brunette
    Gods and Monsters
    A strange and lovely combination of cinematic nostalgia and offbeat (gay) love story.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    The Hurricane
    An often affecting, if standard-issue, Hollywood biopic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Billy Elliot
    You'll feel moved and uplifted after watching this well-written, funny movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    The Limey
    Tender souls who don't like a lot of noise and violence should probably stay away from this very in-your-face film.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Brunette
    Joe the King
    An occasionally powerful, always heartfelt drama.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    Space Cowboys
    The filmmaker has given us two films for the price of one. Unfortunately, the second film, a gripping thriller which occupies the last 45 minutes of Space Cowboys, is much better and more involving than the first film.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Titanic Town
    Authentic contemporary heroine.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Brunette
    Twin Falls Idaho
    While the film's mood is dreamy, dark, and gentle, it's also very slow and seldom leads to much of a intellectual or emotional payoff.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Aimee & Jaguar
    Its series of quiet but moving realizations of the utter ubiquity of the Nazi horror in every single aspect of life, even something as hidden as a sexual sub-culture, is powerful indeed.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Felicia's Journey
    It's an Egoyan film, and therefore by definition worth seeing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Opportunists
    A very small film, as they say in the movie business, but its stylish suspensefulness is nicely leavened by Connell's obvious, and welcome, love for his hapless characters.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    Requiem for a Dream
    Love it or hate it -- and I suspect, frankly, most people are going to hate it -- this is like no other film you've ever seen.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    Hamlet
    It goes without saying that the film is worth seeing simply for Bill Murray's Polonius.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Peter Brunette
    Sweet and Lowdown
    A dud. Neither sweet nor low-down enough by half.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Ride with the Devil
    Far too deliberate for many--I found its generally contemplative spirit, punctuated at regular intervals by some exciting battle sequences, superb.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 10 Peter Brunette
    There's Something About Mary
    This reprehensible and deeply unfunny film is obviously critic-proof.
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Last September
    A Melancholy Delight. Its pacing will undoubtedly seem too deliberate to some, but I found first-time director Deborah Warner's The Last September a delight from beginning to end.
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